The Skeletons, published 1747/1749

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series Title

Grotteschi (First Edition)

Medium

etching, engraving, drypoint, burnishing

Dimensions

plate: 39 x 54.6 cm (15 3/8 x 21 1/2 in.)

sheet: 52.4 x 75.9 cm (20 5/8 x 29 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 21, State i/v

Accession Number

1986.8.4

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Piranesi F

Provenance

Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; (sold, Christie's, London, 5 December 1985); (David Tunick, Inc., New York); acquired 1986 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 385, 386, 483, no. 270 (repro. p. 386)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, repro.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922: Hind 1922, 80, no. 24.

1978: Robison, Andrew. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Early Architectural Fantasies. Exh. guide. Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1978, no. 16.

1985: Christie's, Chatsworth, 12/5/85: 166.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 270.